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<h1>Preparing for Development<a class="headerlink" href="#preparing-for-development" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>The articles in this section explain how to set up your development environment.
This is intended for developers who wish to develop plugins with the Sponge API and for developers who wish to
contribute to the Sponge project.</p>
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